Simon Willison's Weblog: englishhttp://simonwillison.net/2010-02-05T09:50:33+00:00Simon WillisonA History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."2010-02-05T09:50:33+00:002010-02-05T09:50:33+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/5/buffalo/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/buffalobuffalo.html">A History of the Sentence "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo."</a></strong></p>
Complete with explorations of the grammar in Lisp.
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Quoting John C. Welch2007-07-12T18:23:30+00:002007-07-12T18:23:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jul/12/bynkiicom/#atom-tag
<blockquote cite="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/07/oh_lord_now_the_exchange_team_1.html"><p>Could someone please send, to whomever the hell teaches communication skills/techniques at Microsoft, a copy of the Chicago Manual, and perhaps a sixth - grade grammar text? I swear, there's almost no one from that company who can write a proper English sentence.</p></blockquote>
<p class="cite">— <a href="http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2007/07/oh_lord_now_the_exchange_team_1.html">John C. Welch</a></p>
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